From: Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad, Memory in a Global Age, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp 225-226
“On 26 December 2009, the London Times chose Neda Agha-Soltan as ‘person of the year’. The article stated: ‘Neda Soltan […], a young beautiful woman who had studied philosophy, was now an aspiring singer, […] found hersel abruptly catapulted from the crowds of Tehran to become the face of protest against Iran’s repressive rulers; a symbol of rebelion against the fraudulent election that had just returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power’. Neda is included in a list of recent heroes and victims whose suffering became a beacon of protest against repressive injustice and brutal violations of human rights (Times 1 2009).
The Gaze of The Gazelle 